Group gThermostatZoneContacts
// in reality there are multiple thermostats and multiple of these groups,
// so that a rule on members of gThermostatZoneContacts can find the related
// thermostat to turn it off when a window is open
Group:Contact:OR(OPEN,CLOSED) gWindows (eThermostat, gThermostatZoneContacts)
When constructing the Thermostat accessory for eThermostat, detects the
Window_Contact as a mandatory characteristic, because it's a base accessory
in a nested group. This leads to lots of warnings about the temperature
value of a contact item being out of range.
The fix is two-fold - first of all, there's no reason to search nested
groups for characteristics of a complex accessory. Second of all,
even if for some reason you were to nest an accessory in an accessory,
the nested accessory does not actually belong to the outer accessory,
so don't add it as a mandatory characteristic of the outer.
I suspect there's still one more bug, because AbstractHomekitAccessoryImpl.
getCharacteristic(HomekitCharacteristicType.CURRENT_TEMPERATURE) was
returning Window_Contact, which is only tagged as a ContactSensor. But
after fixing the above two bugs, it was no longer reproducible, and I
didn't continue digging.